{"id":1708,"date":"2008-04-01T23:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/metatextual\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T23:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:31:26","slug":"metatextual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/metatextual\/","title":{"rendered":"Metatextual Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve pared my regular comics selection<\/strong> down to the bare minimum for the time being, so any time I buy a few books they&#8217;re always something I love. There were a few especially brilliant bits in this week&#8217;s assortment.<\/p>\n<p>The first one is from the comic tie-in to a movie based on a comic, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warnervideo.com\/jlnewfrontier\/\" >Justice League: The New Frontier<\/a><\/i>. Observe as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rip_Hunter\" >Rip Hunter<\/a> &#8212; Time Master! &#8212; takes a swipe at continuity nerds (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/rip_hunter.html\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/rip_hunter.html','popup','width=960,height=1499,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/rip_hunter-thumb-480x749.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"749\" alt=\"Rip Hunter, metafictioneer\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, some literary commentary on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamlet\" title=\"The great Dane\" >Hamlet<\/a><\/i> from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_of_Fables\" >Jack of Fables<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/fables_hamlet_1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"628\"  vspace=\"5\" alt=\"The Faeries\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/fables_hamlet_2.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"379\"  vspace=\"5\" alt=\"The Faeries\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the viking to cut to the chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve pared my regular comics selection down to the bare minimum for the time being, so any time I buy a few books they&#8217;re always something I love. There were a few especially brilliant bits in this week&#8217;s assortment. The first one is from the comic tie-in to a movie based on a comic, Justice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/metatextual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metatextual Comics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}